Apparatus for making pastry forms



E.YA. HAMWI.

v APPARATUS FOR MAKING PASTRY FORMS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 5. I9l8.

Patented June 1, 1920,

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APPARATUS FOR MAKING PASTRY FORMS.

Application filed November 5, 1918.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, ERNEST A. HAMWI, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements 7 in Apparatus for MakingPastry Forms, of which the following is a specification. V

This invention consists of a new form of pastry cone and the method andapparatus for making the same.

' Heretofore pastry cones have had unsightly ragged edges and the objectof this invention is to eliminate these ragged edges and so to make thepastry forms-as to finish them with smooth edges. While cones arementioned, the invention mutatis mutandis is adaptable for other forms.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, inwhich like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 shows the female mold in sec-. tion,'the male mold open, and areceptacle for batter pouring batter into one of the female molds;

Fig. 2 shows the mold closed, the female mold being shown in section so,as .to allow the shape assumed by the batter to be seen;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view on an enlarged scale of one of the femalemolds with the batter therein pressed into shape by the correspondingmale mold; I

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the female mold;

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a group of pastry cones after they havebeen pressed or formed and removed from the female mold, and efore beingdetached from each other;

'Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the subjectmatter of Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a stack of the subjects-matter of Figs. 5and 6;

Fig.8 is an end view of a single row of cones shown in Fig. 7 with theaddition of aknife showing how the surplus material is knocked away;

Fig. 9 is" an elevation of a single stack of cones after thesubject-matter of Fig. 7 has been treated as shown in Fig. 8; and

Fig. 10 is a view partly in section showingthe completed cone after thesurplus material has been broken away.

The usual batter 1 is placed in the receptacle 2 and therefrom pouredinto female Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. June 1, 1920.

Serial No. 261,284.

molds 3 coacting with corresponding male molds 4 formed on the male moldbody 16.

The female mold body -5 is located in suitable proximity to a burner orseries of burners 6, which provide the requisite heat for cooking thebatter, while the cones remain pressed as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 betweenthe male molds 4 and the female molds 3.

As shown in these figures the batter takes the form of a cone 7 or anyother shape provided by the molds, The face of the female body 5 iscountersunk or cut away as at 18 whereby the cones when baked will bedetachably interconnected as at points 19 by the baked batter, thusfacilitating handling of the same. This invention in part consists inthe flange 8 surrounding the male mold and the shoulder 9 running aroundthe interior of the female mold whereby a special thinness of materialis caused to occur immediately above the shoulder 9, that is to say, at10. This is due to the slanting direction of the part 11 of the femalecone and the surplus material 14 and this results in breaking the sameaway at the'thin part 10,

leaving instead of ragged edges, a neat smooth-edged flange 15, which isnot only more sightly but obviates certain inconvenience and losses oftime in packing and use edge cones. The male mold body 16 is pivoted at17 to the female mold body 5.

Having thus described" this invention, 1'

caused by the present flangeless, rough-- hereby reserve the benefit ofall changes in form, arrangement, order, or use of parts, as it isevident that many minor chan es may be made therein without departing fi'om the spirit of this invention or the scope of the following claims.

I claim- 1. A mold for forming ice cream cones comprising a female moldbody provided with a mold cavity enlarged at its upper end to provide anannular shoulder, the surface of the enlargement above theshoulder'inclining upwardly and outwardly, a male mold body having amold fitting in and spaced from the walls of the cavity and provided atits upper end with an annular enlargement to form a shoulder which isspaced from the shoulder on the female member and adapted to be fittedthereinto, the surface of the enlargement on the mold being vertical,whereby when the male and female members are brought together thedistance between the lower edge of the shoulder on the mold and theadjacent inclined surface of the enlargement of the cavity will be lessthan the distance between the remaining portions of the surfaces of themold and the cavity, whereby to form a weakened circular scoring in acone baked in the mold.

2. A mold for forming ice-cream cones comprising a female mold bodyprovided with a plurality of mold cavities enlarged at their ends toprovide annular shoulders, said shoulders inclining upwardly andoutwardly, a portion of the upper face of said female mold body beingcountersunk and communicating with the cavities for receiving batter, amale mold body carrying male molds engaging in and spaced from the wallsof the cavities and provided at their upper ends with annularenlargements to form shoulders which are spaced from the shoulders onthe female member when engaging therein, the surface of the enlargementson the molds being vertical whereby when the male and female members areengaged, the distance between the lower edges of theshoulders on themolds and the adj acent inclined surfaces of the enlargement of thecavities will be less than the distance between the remaining portionsof the surfaces of the molds and cavities, whereby tov cause weakenedcircular scorings in the cones when baked.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

ERNEST A. HAMWI.

